Category: AI
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Global Tech Report 2026: The Shift from AI Hype to ROI Discipline
Technology has a way of humbling our favorite narratives. The louder the promise, the more the real test tends to arrive later: in operations, in trust, and in whether people can actually use what we built. KPMG’s Global Tech Report 2026 points to a notable shift: organizations are moving beyond scattered AI experiments and demanding…
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KPMG to Automate Routine Audit Testing with AI Orchestration Agents
Progress has a quiet way of arriving dressed as efficiency. Only later do we realize it was also a change in what we trust, who we trust, and how much of judgment we are willing to delegate ? KPMG’s announcement that it will begin automating routine audit testing with AI orchestration agents is more than…
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Launch of ‘Prep Notes’ AI Tool
Technology rarely changes us all at once. More often, it changes the quiet assumptions we bring into a room. And that is where the real transformation begins. Even Realities recently announced “Prep Notes” for its Conversate AI agent on G2 glasses, letting users upload documents before a meeting and receive real-time HUD summaries, suggested answers,…
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KPMG Managed Services Survey 2026 Highlights Agentic AI Shift
Technology has a way of revealing what organisations truly believe. Not what they say in strategy decks, but what they are willing to trust with real work, real risk, and real accountability. KPMG’s Managed Services Outlook Survey 2026 suggests that more than 90% of global executives now see managed services as essential to delivering agentic…
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The more it SNOWS… The more it GOES-tiddely-pom
I’ve been exploring the cutting edge of wearable technologies since the very beginning of my active development journey in IT, and over the years I’ve started to recognize a pattern that repeats itself more often than we like to admit. Innovation almost always begins as something open, experimental, and full of possibilities… and gradually evolves…
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OpenAI Releases GPT-4 Turbo with Enhanced Speed and Cost Efficiency
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo is more than just faster and cheaper – it signals a shift toward democratizing advanced AI at scale. For engineering leaders, this means balancing accessibility with responsibility, ensuring we build ethical frameworks alongside innovation. As speed and efficiency increase, so do complexity and risk. We must pause to ask: Are we fostering…
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The Hive Is Here
There was no announcement.No launch event.No moment where we could point and say: this is when it happened. One day, answers simply started to sound the same. Not wrong. Not misleading. Not even shallow.Just… familiar. Polished. Predictable. Comfortably aligned with what we already expected to hear. At first, it felt like progress. Prologue – The…
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Cybersecurity Gets Harder with AI Agentic Systems in Play
Microsoft recently released a whitepaper titled Taxonomy of Failure Mode in Agentic AI Systems (by the Microsoft AI Red Team, with Pete Bryan among the contributors). It highlights how AI agents—systems that can sense, reason, and act—introduce new and amplified security and safety risks beyond traditional AI models. These aren’t theoretical risks. The paper makes…
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The Tea-Party Prophecy – part one
When Time Turns Against Us Why is it, dear reader, that every tick of the clock sounds more like a drumbeat of doom than the polite clink of a teaspoon? At this peculiar tea-party of progress, Time itself has turned angry upon us – and like the Hatter’s eternal tea table, we are stuck in…
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The Flavors of Microsoft Copilot
A Guide for Engineering Leaders As a Head of Software Engineering, I’m constantly evaluating how to empower my department – and by extension, our partners – with the right tools to work smarter, not harder. When Microsoft Copilot entered the scene, it promised something more than just automation – it hinted at an integrated AI…